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Performance of Vertically-Polarized, Half-Rhombic Antennas Fabricated with Direct-Write Technology Performance of Vertically-Polarized, Half-Rhombic Antennas Fabricated with Direct-Write Technology Prepared by: Yaakov Cohen Cheyanne Herbert Faculty Advisors: Dr. Thomas Montoya REU Site Director, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mr. James Randle Director, SDSMT Direct Write Laboratory Dr. Alfred Boysen Professor, Department of Humanities Program Information: National Science Foundation Grant NSF #1359476 Research Experience for Undergraduates: Bringing Us Together, Improving Communications and Lives Summer 2014 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 501 E Saint Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701 0 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………………...2 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………….2 Objectives …………………………………………………………………………...........4 Broader Impact ……………………………………………………………………………………5 Procedure …………………………………………………………………………………………5 Antenna Materials ………………………………………………………………………...6 Fabrication Equipment ……………………………………………………………………6 Construction ………………………………………………………………………………8 Testing …………………………………………………………………………………….8 Results …………………………………………………………………………………………...13 Copper Wire Results …..………………………………………………………………...13 ECM CI-2002 Trace Results …..………………………………………………………...17 Parelec Parmod VLT (AMA-300) Trace Results ….……………………………………18 Simulation Results……………………………………………………………………….19 Discussion ……………………………………………………………………………………….23 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………25 References ……………………………………………………………………………………….25 Acknowledgments …………………………………………………………………………… …26 1 Abstract This study investigated the use of direct-write technology to construct vertically- polarized, half-rhombic antennas. By the Method of Images principle, these antennas perform like full-rhombic antennas. The antennas were fabricated with a material deposition printing system and from wire. The feed end of the antennas was connected to an SMA connecter. A chip resistor was connected to the other end to terminate the antenna. The physical antennas were then compared to models generated with computer software. 1. Introduction Rhombic antennas were the one of the first high-frequency antennas designed for high directivity and functionality over a large range of frequencies, constructed by connecting two vee antennas together at their open ends (Martin-Caloto, 1). One vertex of a vee is the feed for the antenna, and the other vertex is connected on a terminating resistor, ranging from 600 to 800 Ohms (Blake, 219). This design (seen in (a) of Figure 1) produces an antenna that is nonresonant and unidirectional (Blake, 219). 2 z L L L L + RT Feed VS - 2RT Ground Plane x L L Coaxial Feed (a) (b) Figure 1: A diagram of a full-rhombic (a) and half-rhombic (b) antenna. Rhombic antennas also have some limitations. According to Angel Martin-Caloto, from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, “For proper performance, the individual legs of rhombic antennas must be several wavelengths long. At frequencies near the low end of the range employed for long-distance communication, this results in antennas of great size. A rhombic antenna designed to operate at a frequency of 4Mc, for example, might be more than 1000 feet long and 300 feet wide, requiring a land area of approximately 7 acres for installation.” (Martin-Caloto, 2). As a result, most early rhombic antennas were built parallel to the ground plane, e.g. horizontally-polarized. Optimum design equations have been studied for horizontally-polarized, full-rhombic antennas, but very little research has been directed towards vertically-polarized, half-rhombic antennas. Half-rhombic antennas (seen in (b) of Figure 1) are designed differently, but function similarly to full-rhombic antennas because of the Method of Images (MOI) principle. The half- rhombic antenna is cut at the feed and resistor. Then, it is placed over a ground plane. Above the ground plane, the half-rhombic antenna exhibits the radiation patterns of a full-rhombic antenna while the input impedance is half that of a full-rhombic antenna. This is a consequence 3 of the MOI principle. The half-rhombic antennas studied in this research were also different from traditional rhombic antennas because of their orientation. Traditional rhombic antennas operated parallel to the ground plane, making them horizontally-polarized. In this research, the half-rhombic antennas were operated perpendicular to the ground plane, making them vertically- polarized (seen in Figure 2). Figure 2: A diagram of a vertically-polarized, half-rhombic antenna over a ground plane. Objectives Initially, this research studied vertically-polarized, half-rhombic antennas constructed using direct-write technology. The study focused on studying the performance changes if the included angle ((α) in the Figure 1 and (θ) in Figure 2) and the terminating resistor values were varied. The S11 reflection coefficients and radiation patterns of the antennas were then compared to antennas with the same dimensions constructed with copper wire and simulated on a computer program. 4 To test the antenna performance, three different physical antenna types were constructed. Using direct-write technology and two separate conductive inks, two types of antenna traces were printed on flexible substrates. A final set of antennas was fabricated from copper wire. The results from the physical antennas were then compared to results from an antenna modeling software program. This research had two primary goals: 1. To gather a base set of data for half-rhombic antenna impedance and radiation patterns for comparison to conductive traces, and for future research comparisons. 2. To fabricate half-rhombic antennas using direct-write technology and compare their performance to wire antennas and simulations. 2. Broader Impact This research was a proof of concept that direct-write technology can be used to accurately fabricate half-rhombic antennas. Direct-write technology offers significant advantages over traditional fabrication techniques. It is an inexpensive form of manufacturing, requiring only a substrate and an ink. Direct-write fabrication also offers easy design adaptability. Other manufacturing techniques can require expensive, wasteful, and sometimes costly changes to alter the design of an antenna. Designs for direct-write technology, however, can be changed in computer-aided design programs and ported directly to the deposition machine. 5 Printed antennas on flexible substrates have potential applications in virtually all fields that require wireless communication. Flexible antennas can be used in the military, biomedical industry, consumer electronics, and countless other applications. 3. Procedure This experiment was conducted with two classes of materials: conductive traces made from conductive ink and copper wire antennas. Each type of antenna required its own materials and construction procedure. However, a large portion of the equipment used and the testing procedure was similar for all antennas. This section will outline the steps taken in this experiment. Topics covered are: Antenna Materials Equipment Construction Testing Antenna Materials The antennas in this research were fabricated with three different materials. One set of antennas was constructed from copper wire. The second and third sets of antennas were fabricated with two different conductive inks. Copper wire antennas were fabricated with coated and uncoated size 18 American Wire Gauge (AWG) wire. Half-Rhombic antennas require a terminating resistor to perform as traveling wave antennas. For this experiment, Mouser brand 0805 size surface chip resistors were used to terminate the antennas. The chips had nominal resistances of 300, 374, and 402 Ohms. 6 The first set of the conductive ink antennas were built using CI-2002, a carbon-based conductive ink manufactured by Engineered Conductive Materials, LLC. The second set was built with Parmod VLT (AMA-300), a silver-based conductive ink manufactured by Parelec Inc. The conductive traces were printed on KAPTON type HPP-ST, a plastic flexible substrate. Fabrication Equipment Copper Wire Antennas: The equipment used to build copper wire antennas was limited to electronic calipers for taking measurements, and hand tools used to straighten, bend, and cut wire segments (e.g. pliers and wire cutters). Conductive Ink Antennas: Using AutoCAD software, computer-aided design (CAD) files were constructed to model the desired antenna traces (i.e., draw the antenna). The CAD files were imported into a different software program, PathCAD. PathCAD is designed to work with the ink deposition system; it takes a drawing of the antenna/device and generates a script file with instructions for the deposition system on how to build that drawing. The script file specifies the three dimensional locations of the trace(s), and the direction and speed of movement for the ink deposition, and the air pressure (controls material flow) on the ink syringe at each point. 7 The script file was then sent to the ink deposition machine. In this experiment, an nScrypt 600-3Dn-HP (seen in Figure 3) located in the Direct Write Lab at SDSMT. The nScrypt machine deposits conductive ink from a syringe according to the instructions in the PathCAD script file. In this experiment, the conductive trace was deposited as a single continuous trace, with a constant air pressure applied to the syringe and the syringe held at a constant height above the Kapton substrate. Figure 3: A picture of the nScrypt 600-3Dn-HP machine in the Direct Write Lab. After the
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